The Government of the Netherlands has held a high-level masterclass session dedicated to offshore wind sector, where it showcased how many different elements – from policy, across tendering process, and all the way to project delivery – tie into a successful energy transition story when they are des
TenneT has opened a tender for ground investigation work to be performed offshore Germany, where the transmission system operator (TSO) will install the BorWin kappa offshore converter platform as part of the BorWin6 offshore grid connection. The TSO is looking to award a contract for the execution
Welsh marine energy company Marine Power Systems (MPS) has launched a tender for the supply of platform electrical & electronic control centre (PEECC) for its hybrid wave and wind demonstrator set for deployment in Spain.
A geophysical survey at a site where TotalEnergies and GIG plan to build their 1.5 GW UK offshore wind project is nearing the finish line after almost five months of investigations. The developers contracted Enviros Survey & Consultancy to carry out the work after being awarded a Contract for Differ
The Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) has announced that the GROW consortium FlexH2 project was awarded a grant as part of the MOOI-SIGOHE tender scheme. The Shell-led research project FlexH2, which stands for Flexible Offshore Wind Hydrogen Power Plant Module, intends to develop and demonstrate t
Scottish Government Ministers have approved the Marine Licence application for the 36-turbine Seagreen 1A offshore wind proposal being brought forward by SSE Renewables and TotalEnergies. The Marine Licence covers the offshore elements of the project, including an export cable approximately 110 kilo
Rem Offshore’s newbuild Construction Service Vessel (CSV), Rem Energy, has started a charter sea trial for Siemens Gamesa in the German North Sea. The vessel is deployed at the 400 MW Global Tech I wind farm located 140 kilometres from Emden in the German Exclusive Economic Zone. Once the sea trials
UK energy market regulator Ofgem is inviting bids to bring forward investment in new electricity interconnectors under its ‘cap and floor’ revenue regime.
Spain’s Council of Ministers, at the proposal of the Ministry for the Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge, has approved the Roadmap for the Development of Offshore Wind and Marine Energy. The Roadmap contains 20 lines of action with the aim of reaching between 1 GW and 3 GW of floati
The biggest ever round of the UK government’s renewable energy support scheme opened on Monday, 13 December. Renewable energy projects across Great Britain can now bid for funding in the fourth round of the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, which is aiming to secure 12 GW of electricity capacit
Although the year draws to a close and embraces the holiday spirit, the global energy transition shows no signs of slowing down. In the week behind us, we witnessed that governments spare no expense to support clean energy projects and step up the energy transition game.
The second of the three 220 kV export cable systems for the Ostwind 2 project in the German Baltic Sea has been laid, 50Hertz Transmission GmbH said. This brings the connection of the Baltic Eagle offshore wind farm another step closer, the German transmission system operator said. The third and fin
Van Oord has laid the keel for its new 130-meter hybrid cable-laying vessel Calypso. The Dutch company held a ceremony at the Vard Tulcea shipyard in Romania to mark the milestone. To remind, Van Oord placed an order with VARD for Calypso in December last year as part of the company’s strategy to st
Norwegian clean energy company Horisont Energi and the Finnish energy company Helen will cooperate on hydrogen economy and carbon storage (CCUS).
